The Weekly Dispatch

By Sara Hebel & Scott Smallwood | Open Campus

A weekly newsletter about the role of higher education in society, exposing failures and examining solutions. Plus, updates as we build Open Campus.

Previous issues

How Higher Ed Is Failing Black Americans

#75 Feb 26, 2021

A Big Public Role for Small Private Colleges

#74 Feb 19, 2021

Can a College Help Save a Rural Coal Town?

#73 Feb 12, 2021

#72

Feb 5, 2021

The Country's Issues, Reflected in Mississippi
#71

Jan 29, 2021

The Failings of For-Profit Colleges
#70

Jan 22, 2021

How a Little-known Ohio University Became the Biggest Provider of College in Prisons
#69

Jan 15, 2021

Misperceptions About the Regional Public
#68

Jan 8, 2021

What's Ahead for Higher Ed
#67

Dec 18, 2020

A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
#66

Dec 11, 2020

What Happened to the Class of 2020?
#65

Dec 4, 2020

How Many People Can Ride in That Elevator?
#64

Nov 20, 2020

Cancel Student Debt? We're Already Doing It.
#63

Nov 13, 2020

A Tale of Two Jefferson Counties
#62

Nov 6, 2020

That Blue Dot on the Map? It's the Flagship.
#61

Oct 30, 2020

The Education of Our Electorate
#60

Oct 23, 2020

Could Zoom School Shift Our Thinking on Free College?
#59

Oct 16, 2020

The Part of the FAFSA We Don't Talk Enough About
#58

Oct 9, 2020

Who Carries the Weight of Student Debt
#57

Oct 2, 2020

Mapping Our Local Network
#56

Sep 25, 2020

Who's Not Going to College

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